Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-11-20
.,s Of MiIIionaires and Some Of
l''" ~ Fortunes What $780,
100000 Means.
and lis Rich Men-How Repre-
DA's s.,,va Symps and Ex-senator
HlIl Have Made Money.
ale san Francisco Fortunes Which
scp' p's Rs Taken Into Rich Msn's
O'u,a@os-Whst They are Worth.
c,,rr,gbted 1887, by the Author.

u nSs in proportion to its population
D oI other. Every one otour cities has
mr. more men who are worth mil
u.I ND when we come to larger ones
aorD rmher is so great as to be unknown.
w ~ Work. has to-day more men worth
s :, am moo each than it bad fifty years ago
s ubo we're worth 100000, and the
n'I of the world shows but few in
assC css Of men starting with no hing who
reached the enormous wealth
S' from s25 100000 to SI00,000,000
o. Law Gould is now said 10 be worth
0lI JUL twice this, and Vanderbilt died
1soL3 ike amount. A Stats iclau not
i i $50 tried to give an idea of what
S936OCO 600 meant sit would" said
Gif tsken IN silver cover q SPACE of
W. ,-lv sixtv &C -es and its weight would
" 2s'' -ieO tons. l. would take freight
.s.ir TWO miles and half long to csrTy
md II could not be hauled by less than
Live locomotives. These silver dollars
.onId he so many that if they were laid
.rs touching the other they
mid make silver streak from
TSw York TO San Francisco and would
nm bslf as fsr again on into the Pacific
oce,n, If they we're piled up dollar upon
Sosr they would make solid column
S;5 miles high, and if they were put into
onedollsr bills the bills would nearly
St,etch around the world. II the bills
we're piled one upon another, they would
re.ch upwards twelve miles, and II they
we're sewed together edge to edge into s
rrz7 Quilt they would cover TAG acres !"
But ev these figures give out little
iies Of what 5000, 900, 600 mean. At 6
ner cent. 5000, 100000 brings in SIP
fn0OO0 year or nearly $1,000 day not
iDciuding Sundays. A Thousand dollsrs
an hour would be low estimate of what
J,y Gould's Income is, and at the lowest
rates of interest SIS is added to his for
tune every minu e of every day and night
inst be lives. These millonsirss are
rarely sstisf with per cent, and when
Vol remember G per cent. OF a million
is 100000 year it enables you to com
prehend something Of the value of these
immense fortunes. There Is Isaiah
Williamson of PHILADELPHIA, who has
inside $40, 600, 600 in dry goods and whose
income ought to be q million and half
Eesrly. He is the richest bachelor in the
United States and spends less than $1,000
year Weightman, the Phiisdelphls
druggist, has also S20,C00,000, and his
big FIRE proof Ss'e is filed with mortgages
Still he works jus5 as hard as though he
had not 81, 200, 900 above his expenses,
and he experiments ID his library with a
ten cent calico apron stretched around his
rOtuGd frame.
ROCKEFELLER, the coal oil millionaire is
worth $40 600 900, and his income ought
to be $500, 900, but it is poor Standard
OIL stock that does not pay more than 10
PERCENT ,snd R.ckyfeller's property prob
ably pays nearly $4,000, 900 than 81, 000,-
O0O He has bard time to spend it, aud
be said some time ago that he hoped the
Lord would help him. Leland Stanford
is smother Of these big milliopaires. He
is worth from $50, 600, 600 to 500 900, GOO,
sgd his new university is to cost between
Sl5,0O0,O00 and. S20,000,000. He once
thought he was doing we'll as young
lawyer when he made $500 in yearly
lees, and doubt not he felt very blue
when the fire which burned his library
drove him west to California and to for
tune.
MilionsIres as q rule congregSte in the
larger cities. 1t is there that the most
business is done, and it is there that the
gressest fortunes are made and invested.
The names Of the New York milllon6ires
sle legion. The palaces OF the million
ares of Cleveland line Euclid avenue for
niles, and Senator Palmer of Michigan
says inst Detroit has q score of men who
sFe worth 81 900 600 and more. The old
Slaker City of Philadelphia has many
CI@3us, and Baltimore, Boston and Chi
CAgo stand high among the cities of the
world IS the abodes of rich men. New
ihisYeu, Conn, is said to have more wealth
man any other city of its size in the
United States, but Senator Mitchell of
Vfegon Claims that Portland has more,
ana the larger Cries Of the west are
Known IN Congress by their millionaire
representatives..
Denver is fast becoming s city of rich
men. Ex Senator TABOR owns real estate
were worth nearly a million, and one of
s-e Banker X Duntz brothers owns house
~ Denver worth over 100000. Judge
S!ines, the red-headed Congressman who
~ Ias Judge Belford's seat in the House of
n representatives has q big block near
1aoofs opera house which brings in as
uucn as kings ransom every year. 1t
snsfms with lawyers and Symes has fitted
" Inc building for legal offices and has
y. one OF the largest lsw Libraries in the
"esE IN 1t for the use OF its occupants.
Spesking of Charlie Kountz, the Kountz
SVys are among the most enterprising
t Iuionsires of the United States. Orig
Iopsauy poor boys they started out from the
ol!O town Of Canton to make their for
'uueS' They engaged in banking and
S HAcn OF the four is now worth several mil
IONS Two of them have magnificent
.oases near New York, great stone pal
NE IN the New Jersey mountains above
Ct1I i,lstoWn. Another has g home In
,Ulsns, which is palstial in it's appoint
THeats, and fourth has big house at
sSslVer. Tabor himself lives in hun
~ .e y thousand house, and Senator Hill is
y 70 be worth million. D.
n, Mofatt, the president Of the
DenVer aud RIO Grande Railroad
s Haue 10 Denver as bookseller, and is
CIV CIV worth $4,000 600, while the two
HHaayton brothers who brought $4,000 to
s.er during Lincoln's presidency are
=, HaS9 worth $1,000, 600 or more. Symes
.Sae The most.of his money in mining
I Is ana ex-senator Hills fortune comes
= tU = The application Of scientific methods
= de reduction of precious metals. Hill
"ss college professor when he came
th.o 1 de went to Swansea in Wales and
!, ,.eRe learned the secret processes
h.. smelling. He came back to
seuFer and turned his knowledge
w gold. He has one employee in his
,,Usi.s who gets $4,000 year and the
lung works with which ne is connected